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AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 1 of 133 AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 (Full Installation) DEVICE MA

2.1.3 SNMP Version The Device Manager can use SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3. You may specify a value of 1, 2 or 3. If the SNMP Version

7.2.8 Close Closes the RMON Statistics window. 7 RMON AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 100 of 133

7.3 History Control Table From the History Control Table menu, you can view RMON History information. Note - If there is a large

RMON History Control Table window 7.3.1 Data Group Buttons At the RMON History Control Table window, you can view the history of

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 103 of 133 Packet Type Shows the number of packets by the following types.

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 104 of 133 Owner Value of etherStatsOwner of the RMON Statistics group.

RMON History Entry tab 7.3.3.1 Available Control Table Entries This table shows all control table entries configured on the targe

Request Buckets The number of values which you asked the RMON agent to store. Granted Buckets The number of values the RMON agent

Add Control Table Entry dialog box 7.3.3.4 Edit Button : changes the selected entry. To edit the entry, select an entry on the ta

RMON History Table tab 7.3.4.1 History Table The table shows history data for the selected control table entry. The table has the

7.3.4.2 Sort To sort table items, click a column title. When you click the column title, table items are sorted by the column in as

the target host. If the string is not specified, the default community string "public" is used. If the Trap Community is

RMON History Plot Chart tab 7.3.5.1 Popup Display You can see the exact value of a dot by moving the mouse cursor onto the dot. T

Topics: • Popup Display RMON History Pie Chart tab 7.3.6.1 Popup Display To display the numeric value for a particular section

Topics: • Polling Interval • Display Data Type of Chart • Regist Menu • Save Polling Data • Start Snapshot RMON Options

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 113 of 133 Absolute Value Displays the sum of values which Device Manager g

Note - Only the values of the collected RMON variables are saved. Values Device Manager calculates from these collected values are

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 115 of 133 RMON History Control Parameters snapshot Below is a snapshot fro

7.3.8 Close Closes the RMON History window. 7 RMON AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 116 of 133

7.4 Alarm Table From the Alarm Table menu, you can view and edit the RMON Alarm table on the RMON agent. RMON Alarm table is used

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 118 of 133 Sampling Interval The time interval at which the RMON agent sam

7.4.2 Event Table of Alarm "Event Table of Alarm" shows a list of events for the Alarm entry which is selected in the Ala

-UserName AlliedView1 -SecLevel authNoPriv -AuthProtocol SHA -AuthPassword PASS1233 2.1.10 Authentica

Add Alarm Table Entry dialog box Alarm Index The index number used to identify this Alarm entry. By default, the lowest unused

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 121 of 133 Owner The owner (creator) of the Alarm entry. By default, "

Index of the RMON Event entry which is triggered when the sampled value reaches the rising threshold. If you select "falling a

7.4.5 Remove Button : removes the selected Alarm entry. 7.4.6 Close Closes the window. 7 RMON AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager

7.5 Event Table From the Event Table menu, you can view and edit the RMON Event entries. The data is not automatically updated. U

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 125 of 133 Add Event Table Entry dialog box The index number used to iden

7.5.4 Edit Button : edits the selected Event entry. Click this button to open the Edit dialog box for the selected entry. Change th

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 127 of 133 RMON Event Log tab 7.6 Event Log From the Event Log menu, yo

Event Index The index number of the Event table for this log entry. Index The index number used to identify this log entry. Log

7.6.5 Display All Button : displays all event log entries. It may take some time to display all entries. 7.6.6 Refresh Button : dis

devicemanager -TargetHost 172.16.99.123 -SnmpVersion 3 -UserName AlliedView -SecLevel authPriv -AuthP

8 Forwarding Database The Forwarding Database option under the Bridge menu allows you to view the FDB (Forwarding Database) Table

8.1 Standard View The Standard View allows you to view the FDB Table as returned by the device. This is the default view that is

8.2 Enhanced View The Enhanced View allows you to select a port or group of ports to view its corresponding FDB Table entries. I

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Examples: devicemanager -TargetHost 172.16.99.123 -SnmpVersion 3 -UserName AlliedView -SecLevel noAuthNoPriv -TrapVe

2.2 Starting From a Network Management Application Device Manager can be started from an integrated network management applicatio

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 16 of 133 Starting from SNMPc 2.2.1 Starting From Castle Rock SNMPc To sta

2.2.2 Starting From HP OpenView Network Node Manager To start Device Manager from HP OpenView, select a node on the map window, the

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 18 of 133 firmware v1.0.2 in the network. Use the LAN IP address of the de

2.2.3 Starting From IBM Tivoli NetView To start Device Manager from Tivoli NetView, select the device that you want to connect to

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 2 of 133 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 OVERVIEW...

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 20 of 133 Starting from WhatsUp 2.2.4 Starting From Ipswitch WhatsUp To sta

3 Main Window When started, Device Manager displays one of the following windows, depending on how it is started. Topics: • Initi

3.1 Initial Window If the target host is not specified, or specified SNMP settings don't match those configured on the host,

3.2 Panel Window When the target host is specified and Device Manager can identify the host model, the following window appears.

3.2.1 System Name Usually, the System Name is set to a unique descriptive name for identifying the device. This refers to the MIB o

4 Basic Operations This chapter describes the basic operations within Device Manager windows. Topics: • Click • OK, Cancel and

4.1 Click Device Manager uses both the left and right mouse buttons. To operate items on the menu bar, you can use both the left

4.2 OK, Cancel and Set Buttons Dialog boxes have buttons to commit or discard changes made in the dialog box. Clicking the OK but

4.3 Pop-up Menus Some elements such as network ports also act as menus. When you right click on a port, a pull-down menu appears.

4.4 Resizing Windows To resize a window, follow the procedures specific to the platform you use. The new window size is stored wh

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 3 of 133 5.2.1 Toolbar ...

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 30 of 133 Ex 1: Before adjustment 4.5 Resizing Tables Device Manager di

Ex 1: After adjustment AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 31 of 133

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 32 of 133 Ex 2: After adjustment Example 2: Adjusting the boundary betwee

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 33 of 133 Ex 3: After adjustment

5 Common Menus This chapter describes the menu items common to all Allied Telesis managed devices. Topics: • File • View • Op

5.1 File The File menu lets you start and stop managing a device, check the properties of the target host, or exit Device Manager

Select Target Host dialog box Target host The host name or the IP address of the target host. To see the description of the host,

AlliedView™- Page 37 of 133 EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Settings If the Version is set to "v1" or "v2c&qu

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 38 of 133 User Account Name This is the SNMPv3 User Account to be used for

AlliedView™- 133 EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 39 of Polling Options dialog box Privacy Password If the Security Lev

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 4 of 133 6.4.5 Clear Button ...

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 40 of 133 Polling Interval Device Manager sends a GetRequest to the SNMP ag

5.1.3 Close Closes the SNMP session with the device and closes the Panel window. To connect to another device, select File > Ope

5.2 View Using the View menu, you can determine whether or not to display the Device Manager toolbar and status bar, view and set

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 43 of 133 Display Threshold 5.2.3 System Info Toggles display of system i

Add button (Green 'plus' icon) Adds a new threshold definition. Remove button (Blue 'X' icon) Removes the se

5.2.6 Snapshot Clicking this option in the View menu opens the Start Snapshot window. Use this window to create an image of the dev

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 46 of 133 Selection PNG File Plot chart snapshot_p#.png Bar Chart sna

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 47 of 133 Screen tab 5.3 Option In the Option menu, general preferences

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 48 of 133 Look & feel Changes how Device Manager windows are displayed

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 49 of 133 Tab Type Displays each stacked device in a separate tab.

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 5 of 133 7.6.2 Event Log Entry ...

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 50 of 133 Resize window when the number of stack changes When checked, De

External Command tab 5.3.3 User Action Tab In the User Action tab, you can specify the action to take when an event occurs. There

User Action tab You can choose an action for each event type. There are two types of actions. Popup message Device Manager displa

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 53 of 133 $CURRENT Current value of the variable. $MAXVALUE Highest valu

$VALUEn The value of the nth MIB object sent with the trap, where n is a number in the range 1 to 9. 5.3.4 Other Tab In the Othe

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 55 of 133 System Location "MIB variable" option displays a MIB

SNMP send data encoding Specifies the character encoding of the data sent by the device. Your options are None, Shift JIS, JIS, and

5.4 Tool From the Tool menu, you can launch external applications such as Telnet, your WEB browser, the MIB browser AMIGO, or VLA

5.4.2 WEB Browser Starts the web browser specified in the External Command tab of the Options dialog box (Option > Option > E

5.5 User Menu In the User Menu, you can create, edit and execute user-defined menu items. This function may be useful if there a

1 Overview Device Manager is a device management application that lets you manage Allied Telesis' hubs, switches and routers

User-defined menu items can be classified as either 'Common' or 'Target-specific'. Menu items in the 'Com

Displays MIB variables of your choice in the common GUI window. Note - It takes times to get values for many variables. To impro

MIB set External command Executes the specified command line. External command 5.5.3 Common The Common submenu contains the u

5.5.4 Target The Target submenu contains the user-defined menu items which are accessible only when connected to the specific targe

5.6 Help From the Help menu, you can view the online user's manual, license information and version information for Device M

5.6.3 License Registration Device Manager can be evaluated for a limited period without a license. If you want to use Device Manage

5.6.4 About Displays version and copyright information for Device Manager. 5 Common Menus AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User

6 MIB Variable Window When you select a menu item to view information from the SNMP agent, a MIB variable window with tabs appear

MIB Variable Window 6 MIB Variable Window AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 68 of 133

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 69 of 133 Table tab 6.1 Table Tab In the Table tab, MIB variables are di

2 Starting Device Manager Device Manager can be started in two ways, from the command line or from a network management applicati

6.1.1 Transpose Button : flips rows and columns. 6 MIB Variable Window AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 70 o

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 71 of 133 Plot Chart tab 6.2 Plot Chart Tab In the Plot Chart tab, varia

The components of the Plot Chart tab are discussed below. 6.2.1 Graph The left half of the window contains the graph showing the va

6.2.5 Reverse Button : flips the states of all checkboxes, that is, unchecks all variables currently selected and checks all variab

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 74 of 133 Bar Chart tab 6.3 Bar Chart Tab The Bar Chart tab displays var

AlliedVi: flips the states of all checkboxes, that is, unchecks all variables currently selected and checks all variables currently

Note - Displaying many variables at the same time imposes a load on system resources. If you encounter delay or reduced system per

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 77 of 133 Edit tab 6.4 Edit Tab In the Edit tab, you can change the valu

In the Edit tab, variables are shown in a table. The table has the following columns (fields) for each entry. 6.4.1 Checkbox Column

6.4.7 Get MIB Value Button : Updates the MIB Value fields of the selected variables. To select a variable, click the MIB Variable f

2.1 Starting From the Command Line The command line interface is the most basic way to start Device Manager. Topics: • Command S

Edit Threshold Item dialog box The MIB Variable field shows the selected variable name. To set a threshold, enter a threshold valu

6.5 Options Tab In the Options tab, preferences specific to the MIB variable windows can be changed. Topics: • Polling Interval

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 82 of 133 6.5.2 Display Data Type of Chart Specifies how to display data on

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 83 of 133 Start snapshot Save polling data 6.5.5 Start Snapshot Clicking

MIB Variables snapshot 6.5.6 Default Button : Reset all options to default settings. 6 MIB Variable Window AlliedView™-EMS 3.10

7 RMON The RMON (Remote network MONitoring) facility collects management information from remote monitoring agents. Monitoring age

7.1 RMON-specific Buttons The RMON window is slightly different from the MIB variable windows. The RMON window has several tabs a

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 87 of 133 RMON Statistics window 7.2 Statistics From the Statistics men

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 88 of 133 7.2.1 Data Group Buttons In the RMON Statistics window, you can v

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 89 of 133 Note - Items calculated by Device Manager always have the descr

SNMP Trap community string. This is used when receiving Traps from agents. DisplayName Titlebar string. UserName User account n

RMON Statistics Entry tab 7.2.3.1 Available Control Table Entries This table shows all control table entries configured on the t

Status The status of the control entry. Owner The owner (creator) of the control entry. 7.2.3.2 Select Button : changes the c

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 92 of 133 RMON Statistics Table tab 7.2.3.5 Remove Button : removes the s

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 93 of 133 RMON Statistics Plot Chart tab items in descending order. To re

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 94 of 133 7.2.5.1 Popup Display You can see the exact value of a plotted do

RMON Statistics 3-D Pie Chart tab 7.2.6.1 Popup Display When you move the mouse cursor onto a section of the pie chart, the value

RMON Options tab (Statistics) 7.2.7.1 Polling Interval You can change the polling interval here. 7.2.7.2 Display Data Type of Char

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 97 of 133 Note - Calculated values are rounded. For example, Number of Erro

Start snapshot AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 98 of 133

AlliedView™-EMS 3.10 Device Manager User’s Guide Page 99 of 133 RMON Statistics snapshot Below is a snapshot from the RMON Stati